United States v. Griffith Amusement Co.

VAUGHT, District Judge.

The plaintiff brings this action against four exhibitors and ten distributors of motion picture films under the Sherman AntiTrust Act, 15 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq., alleging that for the past five years the defendant exhibitors have continuously combined with each other and with each of the defendant distributors and that said distributors have combined with each other and with said exhibitors over the same period to unreasonably restrain interstate trade and commerce in motion picture films and to monopolize and attempt to monopolize the first and second run exhibition of…